Tatiana's TOMATObase - Heritage Tomatoes

From Tatiana's TOMATOBase

This site is intended to provide variety characteristics and historical data for the open-pollinated and heirloom tomato varieties that are grown and maintained by TOMATObase members - tomato enthusiasts around the world. Please visit our Community Portal if you are interested in joining us.

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Contents 1 What's New This Month 2 Tomato Varieties 3 Contributors 4 Other Tomato Resources 5 Tomato Books 6 Tomato Forums

What's New This Month

• Tomato Seeds 2010 Catalog is now available.

• There are 2800 tomato varieties in the TOMATObase as of November 1, 2009.
  • 8 new tomato articles have been added since November 1.

• New reports:
  • New seeds at Tatiana's (fall 2009/spring 2010)
  • Tatiana's tomato growout list for 2010 season (...in progress...)

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Tomato Varieties

• Click here to view the Tomato Variety List in alphabetical order
• Click here to view tomato listings by categories (i.e., growth habit, fruit size, leaf type, etc.)
• Click here to view a list of the 100 heirloom tomatoes, described in the Carolyn J. Male's book "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden".
• Click here to view a list of the heirloom tomatoes, described in the Amy Goldman's new Tomato book that was released on August 5, 2008: The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table.
• Click here to view Tom Wagner's tomato and potato varieties.
• Click here to view Brad Gates' tomato varieties.

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Contributors

Please visit our Community Portal to learn about the contributing members and tomato varieties maintained by the members.

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Other Tomato Resources

1. Wikipedia:Heirloom Tomatoes
2. Seed Savers Exchange - Yearbook: the online searchable database that contains descriptions of all vegetable varieties listed by SSE members.
3. Reinhard Kraft: 1000+ tomato varieties maintained by Reinhard Kraft (picture captions and descriptions in German)
4. Vent Marin. 12 000+ variétés ou appellations locales ou commerciales classées par ordre alphabétique.
5. TolleTomaten German website that features tomato varieties search engine.
6. Tomodori: a French website dedicated to all aspects of growing and cooking heirloom tomatoes. Features a search engine you can use to search for tomato varieties. You do not need to know French to browse Tomodori Photo Gallery!
7. Semences-partage website. New searchable Tomato encyclopedia, launched in 2009. In French.
8. Encyclopédie de Semeurs. French wiki website that describes many edible crops, including tomatoes, as well as facilitates free seed exchanges between members. Launched in July 2009.
9. Dwarf Tomato Project website run by Patrina Nuske Small, Ray South, and Craig LeHoullier.
10. Craig LeHoullier's website: Craig has a very informative Tomato Information page, with pictures, origin information, and much more! He helps coordinate a large project working on breeding improved dwarf tomato varieties and with the help of other heirloom growers has a great tomato tasting party in the Raleigh NC area each summer.
11. Keith Mueller's On-line Tomato Vine website - Keith Mueller is a tomato breeder, who developed several excellent open-pollinated and hybrid varieties, such as Purple Haze F1, Dora, Gary'O Sena, and others.
12. Tomato Anatomy Atlas - This is a very good educational site that helps gardeners to get familiar with proper terminology when talking about various parts of tomato plant anatomy.
13. Angelo Dorny's Tomato website: pictures of some European tomato varieties maintained by Angelo Dorny from Belgium.
14. Tomaten-Atlas - a German website with tomato pictures and descriptions in German.
15. Tomaten Garten - a website of Klaus-Peter Schurz of Germany, who contributed lots of his beautiful tomato pictures for Tatiana's TOMATObase.
16. Website of Ake Truedson, Sweden.
17. VIR - Database of tomato accessions at Vavilov All Russian Scientific Research Institute of Plant Industry.

Tomato Books

1. Carolyn J. Male's book "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden" (Workman Publishing, NY, 1999) provides excellent descriptions of a selection of wonderfully tasty varieties.
2. Amy Goldman's new Tomato book that was released on August 5, 2008: The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit.

Tomato Forums

• TomatoLand: This is an online forum for the serious and casual tomato grower to discuss favorites, failures, successes, surprises, and the general fun of growing tomatoes."
• Tomatoville: 'All about Tomatoes' online forum for discussing tomato growing, seed sources and vendors, new and old tomato varieties, and the Dwarf Tomato Project.
• Growing Tomatoes forum on Garden Web